TO WHICH WE BELONG – Review by Jennifer Merin
To Which We Belong is an informative and encouraging advocacy documentary from filmmakers Pamela Tanner Boll and Lindsay Richardson. The subject is climate change, and the fundamental message is that we humans can actually manage the use of our land to protect our planet from its demise and, ultimately, our own. As illustrated in the film, what is most immediately needed is restoration of healthy soil. which is not all that difficult to accomplish.
The filmmakers travel the globe to show how easy it is to inaugurate practical changes that have almost immediate positive effect. Independent farmers bear witness about how they are transforming arid wastelands back into fertile soil by planting multiple crops in one area rather than a single crop that depletes the soil of it’s complex mineral composition and of the myriad microbes and bugs that keep the soil and plant life healthy. The science behind the suggested changes is explained in terms anyone can understand, making the film a primer for proactivity. Continue reading on CINEMA CITIZEN